Trump Says US, Russia Vow to ‘Move Forward’ After G-20 Meeting

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. Following the meeting, the U.S., Russia, and Jordan announced a ceasefire agreement for the southwestern portion of Syria to take effect on Sunday. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTIEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on before a meeting at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017. (REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool)

Putin furthermore said that he told Trump that Russia wasn’t behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. There were allegations—pushed hard in major media outlets—that damning emails belonging to the DNC and Clinton chair John Podesta were hacked and given to the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks website. WikiLeaks’s chief Julian Assange has denied those allegations.

“And I think [Trump] noted it and he agreed with it. I think it’s better to ask him,” Putin said, as USA Today reported.

Putin described Trump’s character in person.

“Trump on TV is very different from the Trump in person,” Putin told reporters. “He understands things very quickly. It seems to me that we will be able to base future relations on the kind of meeting we had yesterday.”

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who took part in the two-hour Trump-Putin meeting, said the two parties wanted to move forward to address other pressing matters, namely the Syrian civil war.

“In all candidness, we did not expect an answer other than the one we received,” from the Russian leadership, he said, reported The Associated Press.